Over the next year an agreement between the London Borough of Southwark and Hyperoptic should see the area be competing with Kingston upon Hull for the local authority with the most full fibre connectivity.

A pot of some £67m has been allocated for vouchers of up to £3,000 to help mainly businesses upgrade to full fibre connectivity as part of the Governments strategy to drive take-up and building of more full fibre networks across the UK.

Openreach is increasing its workforce to allow it meet the targets it has set for full fibre roll-outs and the extra 3,500 trainee engineers are hopefully a sign that they are in this for the long haul with further targets after the 2020 three million goa..

The City Council in Stoke-on-Trent is partnering with VXFIBER to lever an existing duct network across the city and build a Gigabit capable full fibre network for the multiple sites that comprise the Ceramic Valley Enterprise Zone.

No doubt lots of our readers will have seen the coverage on Virgin Media rolling out to 12 villages in Hampshire and we were surprised the existing amount of VDSL2 and existing FTTP coverage present in the villages when we checked.

We published our first dataset for peak time speeds that match the shortly to arrive 8pm to 10pm advertising window last month based on the analysis of a full years speed tests and for the products which are the most popular we can show monthly results.